Important people Flashcards
who got a charter from the queen telling him that he could start the colony of roanoke?
Sir Walter Raleigh
who came to america for religious freedom?
The pilgrims
who thought they owned america and started giving peices away?
Queen Elizabeth I
Who started there own colony where everyone can worship the way they wanted?
William Penn
Who was always plesant and diplomatic so he was sent to england to try to reason with the king?
Ben Frankilin
Who wrote the Pamphlet, Common Sense that explaned to the colonists why they should break away from england?
Thomas Paine
2 people whom enhareted slave from there fathers?
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
who hated slavery and founded the first anti-slavery society in America?
Ben Franklin
whos engraved picture of the Boston Massacre got the colnists all fired up?
Paul Revere
Who had army of untrained volenteers, no uniforems, no supplises, butI was a master of strategy?
George Washington
Who was the person to write the Decloration?
Thomas Jefferson
who started the committees of correspondence to keep the colonists informed?
Samuel Adams
old fox
George Washington
who rode to Lexington and Concord to warn that the british were coming?
Paul Revere
British King who Taxed items
King George III
